To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DPMI and CALDERA-DOS
Message-ID:	<19990703.074910.10271.0.vmccar@juno.com>
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From:	Vince McCarthy <vmccar AT juno DOT com>
Date:	Sat, 03 Jul 1999 10:48:29 EDT
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Alex 
Check the CWSPARAM.DOC file that tells you how to setup a paging file.
   
   Vince....

On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:42:22 GMT exobot AT my-deja DOT com writes:
>  djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 exobot AT my-deja DOT com wrote:
>>
>> > I have some Problems with the DMPI-Interface when
>> > running the TaskMgr of Caldera DR-DOS 7.03.
>> > If I use the DPMI-Functions of DR-DOS-EMM386 Rhide
>> > and my Testprogramms will run, but the
>> > GCC-Compiler does no ERROR-Messages when a
>> > syntax-error ist in the source-code.
>>
>> I think we need first to establish that the problem is with Caldera.
>> It might be that the problem is with one of these:
>>
>>    - your setup of DJGPP and/or RHIDE;
>>    - some bug in RHIDE;
>>    - some bug in the DJGPP library;
>>
>> I suggest to contact the authors of RHIDE and SETEDIT and work with
>> them to see whether one of the above could be the case, e.g. by
>> writing a small test program that redirects compiler's errors to a
>> file, like RHIDE does, and running it under a debugger to see why 
>does
>> the redirection fail.
>>
>Hello,
>
>thanks for your response, but I think the
>problem is not the Installation of djgpp
>or rhide, it is the DPMI-server itself.
>
>I try to explain my problem
>- I'm using caldera DrDos 7.03 as platform on
>  a 486DX4/100 16MB and compile at the command-line.
>  As testprograms I'm using "hello-world" wich
>  waites for a keypress or rhide (as a more complex one).
>
>Here the effects:
>1) I'm running DOS with Caldera-Emm386 as DPMI-
>   server.
>   1.1. no TaskManager:
>     - everything is fine. I get errormessges
>       when compiling programs with systax errors
>   1.2. TaskManager enabled, running 1 Task:
>     - I get no errormessges when compiling
>       programs with systax errors
>   1.3. TaskManager enabled, running 2 Tasks
>        with programms needing DPMI (Hello world)
>     - normally it works, sometimes the system
>       crashes or hangs.
>2) I'm running DOS with cwsdpmi instead of DR-DOS-EMM386
>   with DPMI enabled.
>   1.1. no TaskManager:
>     - everything is fine. I get errormessges
>       when compiling programs with systax errors
>   1.2. TaskManager enabled, running 1 Task:
>     - everything is fine. I get errormessges
>       when compiling programs with systax errors
>   1.3. TaskManager enabled, running 2 Tasks
>        with programms needing DPMI (Hello world)
>     - I get the error mesage:
>       "Warning: cannot open swap file C:\cwsdpmi.swp"
>     - or the system crashes.
>
>So my problems are:
>- I can't compile when the Taskmanager ist enabled (when
>  using EMM386 of DR-DOS as dpmi-server)
>- I can't run two programms build with djgpp without crash.
>
>Do I try the impossible (Caldera Tasmanager and Protected
>mode-programms, did I have a configuration problem or do
>I need another DPMI-Server ?
>
>Greetings Alex
>
>
>P.S. Sorry for my bad english :-)
>--
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>
>
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